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often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color. [Colloq. U. S.]

The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

The operation of striking out common factora, in both the dividend and divisor.

music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions. We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shak.

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches. Thackeray.

To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance. To clap hands. (a) To pledge faith by joining hands. [Obs.] Shak.

To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. Clattering loud with clamk. Longfellow.

Cliché casting, a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained.

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. Goldsmith.

To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

The striking of a clock. [Obs.] Dryden.

To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.

disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.

croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.

Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.